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Photograph of Holy Cross Monastery
Photograph by Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Holy Cross Monastery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“Holy Cross Monastery is located on US 9W in West Park, New York, United States. It is the mother house of the Order of the Holy Cross, an Anglican religious order inspired by the Benedictine tradition.”

Wikipedia article Holy Cross Monastery (West Park, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. US 9W, E side, West Park, 12493
  • When was it listed? February 1995
  • Category. building
  • Town. Esopus town
  • Architectural style. Mission Revival architecture
  • Architect. Ralph Adams Cram
  • National Register reference number. 95000045 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1898 to 1993

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Holy Cross Monastery, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet covering Holy Cross Monastery, surveyed 1898

Fires near this property

306 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 306 fires within 5 miles of Holy Cross Monastery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 234 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 62 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined168
Arson/incendiarism62
Smoking19
Equipment and vehicle use13
Debris and open burning13
Natural12
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Holy Cross Monastery: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hyde Park PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Morris BankSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this property

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Park, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2023FloodWest Park$1,000Flooding was reported along US Route 9W southbound north of Route 299 in the Town of Lloyd.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindWest Park-A tree was downed on wires along Route 9W.

Every storm recorded in Ulster County

Maps showing this location

13 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
John Burroughs Riverby Studyunder 500 feet1968
Col. Oliver Hazard Payne Estate0.5 miles2002
Slabsides (John Burroughs Cabin)0.9 miles1968
Poppletown Farmhouse1.6 miles1991
Alton B. Parker Estate1.9 miles2016
Cumming-Parker House2.1 miles2010

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95000045 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ulster CountyAll 209 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.